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Ant McPartlin out of Takeaway, BGT and I'm A Celeb after 'drink-drive smash'

ENDER VINCENT

Richard Blackwood exits EastEnders after three years playing Vincent Hubbard

'HE COULD HAVE WIPED US OUT'

Ant drove like a maniac, says ‘drink drive’ smash dad

It increased craving and dopamine release in the dorsal striatum area of their brains.

Psychiatrist Professor Marco Leyton, of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, said: “The study provides evidence some of the characteristic brain signals in people who have developed addictions are also present much earlier than most of us would have imagined.”

It is estimated almost 750,000 adults in England and Wales use cocaine each year.

At its peak use in 2008 the drug was associated with 282 deaths in the UK.